A post-mortem examination has found Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky's death to be "consistent with hanging", police say.

Five police officers are killed and 13 people injured as suicide attackers storm a police station in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, police tell the BBC.

The government will need to react quickly if a benefit cut for social housing tenants leads to rises in rent arrears and homelessness, MPs say.

Private companies have been invited to bid for the East Coast rail franchise, which has been run in the public sector since 2009.

Thousands of welfare claimants are being referred to food banks by Job Centre staff over concerns they have not got enough money to eat, the BBC learns.

The owner of B&Q, Kingfisher, reports a fall in profits after what it describes as "a tough year" of weak consumer confidence and wet weather.

Amanda Knox and ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito must face a retrial over the 2007 killing of her UK flatmate Meredith Kercher, an Italian court rules.

Cyprus's finance minister says big depositors in the country's banks could lose up to 40% of their funds.